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Baseball Evaluation Stats, Player Ratings, and Salary Projections. 5,000 Hours of Research. Now a Player Rating System that Mirrors the Way Real Baseball Values Its Players with Stats you can get Nowhere Else! Explaining the performance evaluation stats of Stat Geek Baseball. Our New Stats Include ...

PEVA - Individual Player Rating for each season.
SPRO - Salary Projection data for future years.
EXPEQ - Experience Equivalent to Major League Service Time.

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Baseball News

Hall of Fame BBWAA To Induct Four

January 24, 2018 - Four new players, two on the ballot for the first time, will enter the Hall of Fame this coming July;
Chipper Jones, Vladimir Guerrero, Jim Thome, and Trevor Hoffman. They will accompany two additional players added in December by the Veterans Committee; Jack Morris and Alan Trammel.

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Hot Stove League Contracts

2017-2018

Check the Hot Stove League sections now for our projections of Free Agent Contract Values, Qualifying Offers, and other contract offers for Arbitration Eligible and Pre-Arbitration Eligible Players for the 2016-2017 offseason, all using our proprietary SPRO system, telling you what they should be paid.

Free Agents

Week of March 12

SPRO Analysis - New York Yankees get bargain in Walker. Yes, decreasing in value from 12.6 to 8.4 to 5.3 to 4.4 in PEVA value over the last four years, but still probably worth more than he got. Not easy to get a 0.362 OBP player for that price, although the SPRO value does not represent the end of free agent bargain basement pricing now in effect for most. SPRO $8,284,000.

SPRO Analysis - Kansas City gets bargain in Grimm. Very slight due to Grimm getting money when cut by the Cubs. SPRO $1,705,000.

Resigned with Team

Week of March 12

Eduardo Suarez signs 7 year $66,000,000 contract extension with Reds.

SPRO Analysis - Cincinnati pays market value/overpays for Suarez. It's a good contract on a per year basis, but we wouldn't have gone over four years for Suarez. SPRO 4 years $36,915,000.

Jose Altuve signs 5 year $151,000,000 contract extension with Astros, starting in 2020. With current contract, comes out to 7 years $163.5m.

SPRO Analysis - Houston pays market value for Altuve. Considering the very club friendly deal for this year and next, it's a bargain ($6m in 2018, $6.5m in 2019), but for the out years it's market value. SPRO 7 years $224,029,000.

All-Time Team Bests, Career

Free Agents

Week of March 5

Jake Arrieta signs 3 year $75,000,000 with Phillies, including opt out after 2 years for player and 2 option years at $20m per with $10m incentives per year.

SPRO Analysis - Philadelphia pays market value for Arrieta. He'll make the Phils better in the short term, but we woudn't have done this for a rising team due to losing draft picks and international money. But he was worth the money, and even could have gotten more years. SPRO 3 year $73,791,000.

SPRO Analysis - Kansas City gets bargain in Moustakas. It had always seemed unwise for Moustakis to turn down the $17.4m one year qualifying offer, but he did. And now Kansas City is getting him for much less than he's worth. SPRO 1 year $10,111,000 or 3 year $31,407,000.

SPRO Analysis - Houston pays market value for Correa. We'd have given him the max for a pre-arb player, but it's in line. Surprised no extension was agreed to. SPRO 1 year $1,250,000 or 5 year $54,850,000.

Postseason Bests

Baseball HistoryNotes

Baseball History Fact

April 4, 1871 - The first professional baseball league, the National Association, debuts with a game between the Cleveland Forest Citys and the Fort Wayne Kekiongas. Fort Wayne won the initial official game 2 to 0.

What else happened that year? January 17, 1871 - Andrew Smith Hallidie patents an improvement in endless wire and rope ways for cable cars. And on November 17, 1871 - The National Rifle Association is granted a charter by the State of New York.

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